Due Date: Week 11, Friday 5:00 pm
CRICOS Provider No.
00103D
ITECH 7406
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ITECH7406- Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Data
Analysis Individual Assignment – 2019 Sem3
Worth – 20% (Week 11- Sun, June 2, XXXXXXXXXX:00)
Learning Outcomes Assessed: S1,S2,S3,K3, K4, A1,A2
Purpose: To encourage and provide students on-hands experiences of using SAP or Watson
Analytics tools to explore, extract and analyse enterprise data
This is a business analytics project aimed at generating innovative analytics solutions. It will
allow students to show innovation and creativity in applying SAP Business Object/Predictive
Analytics or Watson Analytics in designing useful visualization solutions and predictive models
for different types of analytics problems.
The topic will be on environmental issues. Your main task is to apply any of the analytical
tools to develop innovative analytics visualization solutions and predictive models with regards
to environment, e.g. climate change, energy consumption, ca
on footprint, greenhouse gas
emission, pollution dashboard, etc. Besides the suggested datasets/sources, you may apply any
other real-world dataset to illustrate your approach (the different datasets can be combined too).
Please find the attached sample reports
Some possible datasets/sources:
http:
data.un.org/Explorer.aspx
http:
data.worldbank.org/topic/environment
https:
data.oecd.org/
http:
geodata.grid.unep.ch/
http:
open-data.europa.eu/en/data/publishe
eea
https:
www.data.gov/
http:
data.un.org/Explorer.aspx
http:
data.worldbank.org/topic/environment
https:
data.oecd.org
http:
geodata.grid.unep.ch
http:
open-data.europa.eu/en/data/publishe
eea
https:
www.data.gov
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Report Submission
Submit your report as either a word or PDF document via Moodle on Sunday, June 2, 2019
- 17:00 (Week 11). You will submit a 9-10 pages report (about 3000 words not counting
cover page and references) of this project. At least 15 references in your report must be from
peer- reviewed sources. Include any and all sources of information including any person(s)
you interviewed for this project.
Please note that all references must adhere to APA style. See
http:
owl.english.purdue.edu/owl
esource/560/01 and http:
www.apastyle.org/ for details on
how to format a report and how to cite references. Make sure your follow formal report structure
with cover page, introduction, use of headings, subheadings, conclusion sand reference section.
You are reminded to read the “Plagiarism” section of the course description. Your essay should
e a synthesis of ideas from a variety of sources expressed in your own words.
All reports must use the APA referencing style.
University Referencing/Citation Style Guide:
The University has published a style guide to help students co
ectly reference and cite information
they use in assignments (American Psychological Association (APA) citation style,
http:
www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/student/learning_support/generalguide/print/ch06s04.shtml
or Australian citation style
Reports are to be presented in hard copy in size 12 Arial Font and double spaced. Your report
should include a list of references used in the essay and a bibliography of the wider reading you
have done to familiarize yourself on the topic.
A passing grade will be awarded to assignments adequately addressing all assessment criteria.
Higher grades require better quality and more effort. For example, a minimum is set on the wider
eading required. A student reading vastly more than this minimum will be better prepared to
discuss the issues in depth and consequently their report is likely to be of a higher quality. So
efore submitting, please read through the assessment criteria very carefully.
http:
owl.english.purdue.edu/owl
esource/560/01
http:
www.apastyle.org
http:
www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/student/learning_support/generalguide/print/ch06s04.shtml
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ITECH7406- Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
Data Analysis Individual Assignment – 2018 Sem3
Tasks Max
Marks
Marks
Awarded
Comments
What are the BI reporting solution/dashboards you will
need to develop for the Senior Executives of chosen data
Set– You must have at least two types of analytics i.e
Predictive/prescriptive/ descriptive
10
Design Mobile application using QSR code for your
insights /solutions/dashboard – Please provide your QSR
code in your assignment
10
Justify why these BI reporting solution/dashboards are
chosen and why those attributes are present and laid out in
the fashion you proposed (feel free to include all other
elevant justifications using the academic articles).
Note: To ensure that you discuss this task properly, you
must include visual samples of the reports you produce
(i.e. the screenshots of the BI report/dashboard must be
presented and explained in the written report; use
‘Snipping tool’), and also include any assumptions that
you may have made about the analysis in yourassignment
eport (i.e. the report to the senior executive team of the
company).
10
Furthermore, the CEO would like to improve the
operations. Based on your BI analysis and the insights
gained from “Data Set”, make some logical
ecommendations to the CEO, and justify why/how your
proposal could enhance company operations, sales etc.
Include the relevant screenshots of the BI analysis, and
also any assumptions that you may have made about the
analysis.
10
Report is well-written and presented professionally,
containing:
• Title page
• Executive Summary (outlining the scope of report, key
findings and recommendations)
• Table of Contents
• Appropriate use of headings within report
• Appropriate use of figures (i.e. graphs, summary tables)
and
• References (APA Style)- in text and bibliography
(10 articles)
1
2
1
1
1
4
Total Marks 50
Total Marks out of 20 20%